Not making a joke about how Ood are odd...

Appearing two episodes previously, The Ood made such a great impression it was surely not going to be the last we see of them and thankfully it wasn't.

This is one of the greatest episodes of the series and better still for once it wasn't humans who needed saving. Well they did but did we really care about them? No. Everybody was routing for the Ood even if they were killing! This episode shows that it's not only humans who need saving, sometimes it's the aliens from the humans. The Ood were the perfect race of creatures to bring back! Feeling sympathetic for something that looks like that was surprisingly easy. One problem with this episode was some of the villains seemed to sadistic and cliche. The head of the armed forces being the biggest example. Besides that, this was a perfect episode. This episode also featured one of the best deaths in the series. Death by Ood tentacles. When I go I wanna go out like that! Now let's all sing the song of the Ood! Wait it doesn't really have words...moreless

Planet of the Ood

Planet of the Ood was a perfect and very entertaining episode of Doctor Who. I really enjoyed watching because the story was well written, the acting was superb and there was lots of character and plot development. I liked how The Doctor and Donna visited the Planet of the Ood and learned more about them and how they came to serve humans. I liked how every thing played out. There were a few touching scenes. I look forward to watching what happens next!!!!!!!!!moreless

Little slips, but otherwise a decent episode

Once again, we meet the Ood in this episode. Of course, the subject of them being slaves is tackled by the Doctor's companion. Donna reacts the same way as Rose: she is heart-broken and tries to persuade them to be free. What is interesting is that she does not bother me, she seems perfectly natural at it.

The concept is pretty interesting: why are the Ood acting so strange and killing people? There is a lot of tension and puzzlement within Donna and the Doctor. The supporting actors are, as always, well chosen and really pull off the characters. However, there are some things that caught my eye. The first is no doubt what must be the worst special effect in Doctor Who: the scene where Dr. Ryder falls off the railing. Anyone could have seen that was very unrealistic.Secondly, they seem to stress the fact that the Doctor has a tragic faith in the latest episodes (here it was hearing the Ood sing). We all know that, but over-emphasising it can ruin the whole thing. Overall, it was a decent chapter and returning more to its usual self.moreless

The Ood make a not so welcome return

The Impossible Planet and the Satan pit were a couple of my favourite episodes from the second season of Dr Who. I quite liked the Ood as a series of protaganists who actually had very little say in the matter. We get just enough backstory about who or what they are to actually care when the Dr says "I couldn;t save the Ood," at the end of the episode. This is my favourite kind of Sci Fi, the feeling that everything has a story but that we don't necessarily need to know it (one of the reasons I enjoyed the first Star Wars movie so much).It was nice to know that the Ood were slaves and humanity wasn't all it was cracked up to be, without having it rammed down our throats. Unfortunately, this episode brought one hell of a big rammer!Basically, the Ood go nuts again, but rather than the plucky band of "Alien" rip off freedom fighters that we had in the first episode, it is just a bunch of overpaid lazies and military idiots who get slaughtered, led by a woefully one dimensional Tim McKinnery (who surely can't have sunk this low after the wonderful Blackadder).The explanation of the translation spheres was ok if you don't examine it too closely. The part where McKinnery turns into an Ood (a separate species) is ludicrous no matter how closely you look at it.Donna developed as a character but some of the annoying parts from "The Runaway Bride" slipped back into the character as well. Hopefully this is just an abberation, but I'm not confident.moreless

This episode makes you want to find a ood and squish it with hugs... my little sister now wants to start an ood farm!!! Werid, but still good... like the thing with the bees...???moreless

I felt real sorry for the ood in the beast episode... no animal or humanoid should be treated like they were and it was good to see them get their own back! XD I was screaming Viva Revolution! through it... and silently hopeing donna would get hit with a wrongly directed blast and die... its not personal... its just shes one of the most annoying assistants theres ever been (yet). I hope she gets better. Anyway, great episode to make you feel all tingley with... or start an ood farm. Hmmmm.... I wounder what other doctor who creatures you could farm...?moreless

TRIVIA (5)

Donna's comparison of the TARDIS to Halpen's rocket- 'You've got a box; he's got a Ferrari'- is similar to the Doctor's comparison between the TARDIS and Captain Jack's Vortex Manipulator in Utopia (in which he says 'I've got a sports car, you've got a space hopper'.)

Several references are made to The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit (the previous episodes to feature the Ood), such as the Doctor referring to the stronger power overtaking the Ood as 'The Devil' and him mentioning that he had to let the Ood die.

QUOTES (29)

Ood Sigma: Take this song with you.Donna: We will.The Doctor: Always.Ood Sigma: And know this, Doctor-Donna, you will never be forgotten. Our children will sing of the Doctor-Donna, and our children's children, and the wind and the ice and the snow will carry your names forever.

The Doctor: Funny thing, the subconscious. It takes all sorts of shapes. It came out in the red-eye as revenge. Came out in the rabid Ood as anger. And then there was patience. All that intelligence and mercy focused on Ood Sigma. How's that hair loss, Mr Halpen?(Halpen reaches to his head and pulls a clump of hair out)Halpen: (speaking to Ood Sigma) What have you done?The Doctor: Oh, they've been preparing you for a very long time.

(In Warehouse 15, the Doctor and Donna find a massive brain)The Doctor: The Ood Brain. Now it all makes sense. The missing link. The third element, binding them together. Fore-brain, hind-brain and this. The telepathic centre. It's a shared mind, connecting all the Ood in song.(Halpen advances on them, holding a gun)Halpen: Cargo. I can always go into cargo. I've got the rockets; I've got the sheds. Smaller business, much more manageable. Without livestock.Dr Ryder: He's mined the area.Donna: You're going to kill it?Halpen: They found that… thing centuries ago beneath the northern glacier.The Doctor: Those pylons…Donna: In a circle. The circle must be broken.The Doctor: Dampening the telepathic field. Stopping the Ood from connecting for two hundred years. Halpen: And you, Ood Sigma, brought them here. I expected better.Ood Sigma: My place is at your side, sir.Halpen: Still subservient. Good Oo…Donna: If that barrier thing is in place, how come the Ood started breaking out?The Doctor: Maybe it's taken centuries to adapt? The subconscious reaching out?Dr Ryder: But the process was too slow. Had to be accelerated. You should never have given me access to the controls, Mr Halpen. I lowered the barrier to its minimum. Friends of the Ood, sir. It's taken me ten years to infiltrate the company and I succeeded.Halpen: Yes. Yes, you did.(Halpen throws Ryder over the side and onto the Ood Brain, which absorbs him)

Halpen: Change of plan.Dr Ryder: There's no reports of trouble off-world, sir. It's still contained to the Ood-Sphere.Halpen: Then we have a public duty to stop it before it spreads.The Doctor: What's happening?Halpen: Everything you wanted, Doctor. No doubt there'll be a full police investigation once this place has been sterilized so I can't risk a bullet to the head. I'll leave you to the mercies of the Ood.The Doctor: But, Mr Halpen, there's something else, isn't there? Something we haven't seen.Donna: What do you mean?The Doctor: A creature couldn't survive with a separate fore-brain and a hind-brain. They'd be at war with themselves. There's got to be something else. A third element. Am I right?Halpen: And again, so clever.The Doctor: But it's got to be connected to the red-eye. What is it?Halpen: It won't exist for very much longer. Enjoy your Ood.

Halpen: The Ood were nothing without us, just animals roaming around on the ice.The Doctor: That's because you can't hear them.Halpen: They welcomed it. It's not as if they put up a fight.Donna: You idiot. They're born with their brains in their hands. Don't you see? That makes them peaceful! They've got to be, 'cos a creature like that would have to trust anyone it meets!The Doctor: Oh, nice one.Donna: Thank you.Halpen: The system's worked for two hundred years. All we've just got a rogue batch, but the infection is about to be sterilized.

Halpen: Mr Kess. What's the situation?Kess: We've contained it, sir. Fenced them in. But the red-eye seems to be permanent this time, its not fading. Worse than that, sir, there's more of them turning rabid. In my opinion, sir, I think we've lost them. The entire batch contaminated.Halpen: What's causing it? Why now? What's changed? (He looks in the mirror and pulls a clump of hair out) How many Ood in total?Kess: I'd say about two thousand, sir.Halpen: Well, we can write them off. That's what insurance is for. (to Ood Sigma) Drink. (to Kess) There's plenty more on the breeding farms. Let's start again. (downs the drink given to him) Fetch the canisters. No survivors.

Donna: If people back on Earth knew what was going on here…Solana: Don't be so stupid. Of course they know.Donna: They know how you treat the Ood?Solana: They don't ask. Same thing.The Doctor: Solana, the Ood aren't born like this. They can't be. A species born to serve could never evolve in the first place. What does the company do to make them obey?Solana: That's nothing to do with me.The Doctor: Oh, what? 'Cause you don't ask?Solana: That's Dr Ryder's territory. The Doctor: Where's he? What part of the complex? I could help with the red-eye. Now show me.Solana: There. Beyond the red section.The Doctor: Come with me. You've seen the warehouse, you can't agree with all this. You know this place better than me. You could help.(Solana looks at the Doctor and Donna)Solana: They're over here! Guards! They're over here!

(The Doctor and Donna find a large contained filled with Ood ready to be shipped)Donna: A great big empire built on slavery.The Doctor: It's not so different from your time.Donna: Oi, I haven't got slaves!The Doctor: Who do you think made your clothes?Donna: Is that why you travel round with a human at your side? It's not so you can show them the wonders of the universe, it's so you can take cheap shots!The Doctor: Sorry.Donna: Well, don't. Spaceman. (to an Ood) I don't understand. The door's open. Why don't you just run away? Ood: For what reason?Donna: You could be free.Ood: I do not understand the concept.Donna: What is it with that Persil ball? I mean, they're not born with it, are they? Why do they have to be all plugged in?The Doctor: Ood, tell me. Does the circle mean anything to you?All Ood: The circle must be broken.Donna: Oh, that is creepy.The Doctor: What is it? What is the circle?All Ood: The circle must be broken.The Doctor: Why?All Ood: So that we can sing.

(The Doctor and Donna see Kess mistreating some of the Ood)Donna: Servants? They're slaves!The Doctor: Last time I met the Ood, I never thought. Never asked.Donna: That's not like you.The Doctor: I was busy. So busy I couldn't save them. I had to let the Ood die. I reckon I owe them one.

(Dr Ryder, Ood Sigma and Mr Halpen inspect the rabid Ood)Halpen: What the hell is wrong with it?Dr Ryder: It's obviously Stage Two of red-eye. Whatever that means.Halpen: Ood Sigma, have you seen this before?Ood Sigma: Humanity defines us, sir. We look to you for answers.Halpen: Ah, fat lot of good, all of you. We're exporting hundreds of thousands of Ood to all the civilized planets. If they turn rabid, you know what it'll mean.Dr Ryder: Well, there's only one thing I haven't checked, sir. Warehouse 15.Halpen: (sounding nervous) Why should that cause trouble? It's been two centuries now, no change. Not ever.

Donna: Are there any free Ood? Are there Ood running wild somewhere, like wildebeest?Ood: All Ood are born to serve. Otherwise we would die.Donna: You can't have started like that. Before the humans, what were you like?

The Doctor: The year 4126. That is the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire.Donna: 4126? It's 4126. I'm in 4126!The Doctor: It's good, isn't it?Donna: What's the Earth like now?The Doctor: Bit full, but you see the Empire stretches out across three galaxies.Donna: It's weird. I mean, it's brilliant, but back home, the papers and the telly, they keep saying we haven't got long to live. Global warming, flooding, all the bees disappearing…The Doctor: Yeah, that thing about the bees is odd.Donna: But look at us. We're everywhere. Is that good or bad, though? I mean, are we explorers or more like a virus?The Doctor: Sometimes I wonder.

The Doctor: The Ood are harmless, they're completely benign, except… the last time I met them, there was this force- like a stronger mind- powerful enough to take them over.Donna: What sort of force?The Doctor: Ah. Long story.Donna: Long walk.The Doctor: It was the Devil.Donna: If you're going to take the mickey, I'll just put my hood back up.

Donna: What's an Ood?The Doctor: They're servants of humans in the forty-second century. Mildly telepathic, that was the song, it was his mind calling out. Donna: I couldn't hear anything. He sang as he was dying.The Doctor: His eyes turned red.Donna: What does that mean?The Doctor: Trouble.

The Doctor: Millions of planets, millions of galaxies and we're on this one. Molto bene. Bellissimo. You said it, Donna. Born in Chiswick, a life of work and sleep and telly and rent and tax and takeaway dinners, all birthdays and Christmases and two weeks' holiday a year and then you end up here. Donna Noble, citizen of the Earth, standing on a different planet.

(After a very bumpy ride, the TARDIS lands)The Doctor: Set the controls to random. Mystery tour. Outside that door could be any planet, anywhere, any when in the whole wide… are you alright?Donna: Terrified. I mean, history's one thing but an alien planet…The Doctor: I could always take you home.Donna: Yeah, don't laugh at me.The Doctor: I know what it's like. Everything you're feeling right now, the fear, the joy, the wonder, I get that.Donna: Seriously? After all this time?The Doctor: Yeah! Why do you think I keep going?

(An Ood hands Mr. Bartle a file)Mr. Bartle: I said military figures. That's the domestic file. Get me the military.(The Ood slams the file on the desk. We see it's eyes have gone red)Ood: The file is irrelevant, sir.Mr. Bartle: Oh, and why's that?(The Ood pushes the translator ball onto Bartle's head, electrocuting him)Ood: Have a nice day.

(The Doctor and Donna are tied up and left by Halpin. The Doctor struggles with his restraints as Donna grows impatient)Donna: Well do something. You're the one with all the tricks. You must have met Houdini.The Doctor: These are really good handcuffs.Donna: Well I'm glad of that. I mean, at least we've got quality!

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